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keep. It is sourced to a secondary reference establishing notability. This article may well be expanded from other secondary information. — Preceding
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Ke4roh (
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Delete - There is evidence that this ensemble
existed, and they are indeed listed at various Louisiana historical sites. But regardless of anything they may have accomplished in their time, there is no evidence today that they meet Wikipedia's
notability requirements. If people interested in the musical history of Lake Charles, LA read about them at the local historical society, that's cool but there is little to be said for WP's purposes here. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (
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CONTRIBS) 14:35, 14 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. The only claim of importance in the article is that the band was composed of "leading citizens". However, it does not say what these citizens did to earn their notability and none of them have Wikipedia articles. This would probably not even get through an A7 speedy deletion as a "credible claim of importance". The only possible merge target is
Lake Charles, Louisiana, but even a passing mention there looks
WP:UNDUE to me.
SpinningSpark23:53, 14 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment This band is unrelated to the Louisiana/New Orleans jazz tradition. In fact, the
photo here shows that they were white and members of what I assume was a volunteer fire department in Lake Charles. Something of this age is not likely to have a lot of press, and you could dismiss it as not having demonstrated notability, but I'd hate to lose it. I added the book reference I found to the article. My question is whether there are local newspapers we could search in. Anyone?
Lamona (
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20:26, 18 December 2022 (UTC)reply
There are some mentions in local newspapers in newspapers.com, but they're almost all announcements, e.g. a benefit to raise funds for new uniforms. There was one paragraph (which I can't find again for some reason) about all members being Confederate veterans or sons of veterans, but that's about it.
Clarityfiend (
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04:09, 19 December 2022 (UTC)reply
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